Russi Taylor Quotes

Whenever there's a crying kid, I have to make sure that the kid stops crying.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

Children require affection. That's very important.

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

I don’t see it as pressure. Among friends we can get advice.

I try to be as calm and as reassuring and a rock to my daughter as I possibly can be. I try to teach her everything that I never knew when I was her age, and I try to give her all the advantages and the things that I didn't have when I was her age.

Stroking my dog calms me down.

It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.

A lot of time, I have to be the person who just goes, 'Hey dude, don't even trip. Don't worry about it.'

My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.